It's the end of the world as you know it – brought to you by a Gnome Mage with big balls of fire

See, I Told You!

This is Odin’s (my son) favorite phrase when he does something we have warned him about, only to have it come true.

G.N.O.O.B. Rage

I expressed my frustration at Alliance EoTS groups the other day. Their practice of grabbing one tower then fighting over a flag that will give crap returns has made me frustrated and angry… Angry enough that I now wear a deserters buff rather than bang my head on my desk in frustration.

I just want to clearly show you what happens when one side grabs and controls the 4 towers & ruins.

Yeah, it’s not a happy tale, from my perspective anyway. Still I guess you are thinking

That’s not so unusual, you just need to see Fikkle’s battleground stats to know that the Alliance are weak as piss and the Horde are OP.

The thing is, we aren’t and they aren’t.

What they did do this game that makes it slightly different to the usual Horde drubbing is…

They captured all 4 towers and ruins. They did this right at the beginning of the battle and confined us to our spawning rock… Then picked us off one at a time as we tried to get off.

Some achievement

I don’t know how many achievements they picked up, but they got at least one

Dear Alliance,

See, I told you!

Wake up and play the game. I dare say that the more experienced players have now reached a level of frustration that has stopped them from joining the BGs… Because I know I am close!

Alterac Folley

While I am letting off steam…

To the 35 players in AV last night that were saying:

We are Alliance, we always lose!

It’s the noobs that don’t know how tp play the game

It’s the no-skill noobs that rush Drek, they have no idea!

We are Alliance, we always lose!

Let me tell you something…

We are Alliance and we DON’T always lose!

If there is one battleground we win more than any other it is Alterac Valley.

If you can’t win Alterac Valley you are the lowest of the low asshat noobs that play the game!

If I didn’t know any better (and I stated as much at the time) I would think you were all Horde that did a server transfer.

You do not win AV by protecting Balinda.

You do not win AV by the Lemmig parade at Galv

You do not win AV by fighting in little groups of 2 or 3 in the middle of the map

We will not win by rushing Drek when our reinforcements are less than 100 and the Horde’s are more than 400… that’s just too little too late

You are pathetic creatures when your highest healer, this modest resto shaman, captures more towers and graveyards that you DPS.

Seriously.. this is yet another case of…

Out of Mana, but not Out of Megan

I have been tardy in not publicizing this more.. well apart from bumping Matticus from my front page feeds and replacing him with the dangerous duo at FORBEARANCE.

You may hate me for posting this, but my warrior and a guildy did this to alliance in the one EotS we got in tonight. I got the perfection and the flurry achievements… Btw, if you ever get tired of hooves, I know an arms warrior that would kill (ha!) for a pocket resto shaman to go with my pocket holy pally and shadow priest… Talk about unstoppable!

I have been contemplating dragging my 50-something tauren druid out of retirement…

I was thinking of faction & server transfer… but I really don’t want a Nelf…

If my circumstances change and I can play at silly hours of the day/night… maybe I will stay Hordepaw and come visit… just as long as you don’t pack up and transfer servers in the middle of the night to escape me ;-)

Ohhh and no I don’t hate you… Gnomeaggedon has had his fair share of destruction derbys (in fact I got that achievement the other day) over the Horde…

Still it hurts every time you get into a BG, especially with the current extended wait, to find that the idiots you are playing with couldn’t give a toss about the mechanics of the BG.

It would be like tuning up to Ulduar Hardmode only to find your 24 guildies decided to run on their recently dinged 80 alts, in unenchanted, ungemmed level 60 greens… then spent the night searching out the puddles of green to stand in just so they could show they took the most damage for the night, therefore must be hardcore!

That said, the defending Bal/Galv thing can work — but only if you WIPE the other team and then grab the graveyards before they have a chance to spawn there. I’ve seen it done, twice with Alliance wiping us, and in one of the few magnificent winning AVs, with Horde wiping the entire Alliance team (it seemed like) at Galv. If you manage to throw the other team off enough, they won’t be able to recover.

Of course, it rarely, rarely works and should not be used as your main strategy.

But yeah, lately my BG’s Horde seems to lose everything. It’s not that people aren’t enthusiastic or don’t want to win, it’s just that they don’t have a freaking clue about strategy and won’t listen to the people who do, and so we get outplayed. :-/